I’ll admit as a kid I never watched Phantom 2040 mostly due to his boring purple outfit. If he had a cooler costume I probably would’ve watched it because otherwise it’s crime fighting in a cyberpunk city, which I’m a fan of.
So have any of you watched it? Is it any good? I worry that being a saturday morning cartoon from the 90s means it’ll just be basic childish plots resolved within 20 minutes. I mean, Spider-Man Unlimited has Spider-Man getting trapped in a cyberpunk city of human/animal hybrids with a spider-suit made of nanomachines and yet the execution was mostly boring. So I expect Phantom 2040 probably isn’t worth watching.
Here’s the intro. I happened to notice the show because the entire series is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, YouTube, Roku, and Pluto. And there’s also a SNES game which I’ve heard good things about.
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I had it on Genesis. Definitely a pretty game for its time. 16 bit consoles really got the look of cartoon and anime down.
I think they’re both based on comic books and 2040 is just a futuristic reboot.
I never watched Phantom 2040, but I just wanted to say that I remember Phantom from Defenders of the Earth and it was nice to see him show up here on Lemmy :)
Well that’s a weird coincidence, I just made a vague reference to this show to confuse a bunch of Zoomers in Discord since they weren’t alive yet. I remember the intro more than anything.
The Phantom is rough on rough necks.
-Old jungle saying
lol, yeah I watched it a bit as a kid.
It was weird and kinda reminded me of Aeon Flux but I think there might’ve been some of the same people working on both.
I remember I watched it in French-dubbed first before I found the English version many years later online.
So this is who phantom limb is a parody of …
I don’t know why I needed you to point this out, but I appreciate it!
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